What Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs Work with Native Elders?

Don’t miss the National Council on Aging’s webinar, “What Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs Work with Native Elders?,” on November 30, 3-4:30 p.m. EST. In the recent report, “Successful Strategies & Lessons Learned from Implementing Evidence-Based Programs in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities” professionals responsible for delivering evidence-based health promotion programs (referred to as EBPs) for elders emphasize the need to both understand the concept and importance of EBPs among program staff and program participants.

The purpose of this webinar is to introduce American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian  communities to evidence-based health promotion programs and illustrate best practices from these communities currently offering programs. In this webinar, presenters will engage in a dialogue to address these questions as well as offer examples of programs that successfully resolved some of these challenges in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities.

This webinar will help identify two existing evidence-based health promotion programs that can be linked to serve their community, and identify two potential challenges in linking an evidence-based health promotion program to an American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian community. Listeners will be show how to assess existing and available resources, policies, programs, practices, and interventions.

Featured speakers are Jennie R. Joe, PhD, MPH, MA (Navajo); Kate Lorig, DrPH; and representatives from the Intertribal Council of Arizona; Wisdom Warriors Washington, Hawaii, and more. In this event, participants will be able to distinguish an EBP from one that is not evidence-based, identify at least three ways that their community can benefit from EBPs, link with existing programs, adapt programs to fit within the community, and identify possible challenges.